Not this time!

  • #19 The future

    I am truly hoping this is the final chapter in many respects, as it will mean that my remission continues. I know there will be check ups for another 3-4 years to check this is the case, monitor and support. There is always the possibility of some of...
  • #18 The first anniversaries

    One of the worst things for me about November is going to work and coming home in the dark. I am sure teenagers these days have a vampire-ness to them when they complain as I open the classroom blinds – my feeble attempt at seeing some daylight...
  • #17 Making Adaptations

    I ‘properly’ returned to work in the September, five months after treatment had finished. To start with I struggled with the fatigue and eating. For most of my colleagues’ morning break is challenging enough, taking a class to the r...
  • #16 Life after cancer

    We all experience our cancers differently and these experiences leave us all changed to some extent or another. To be in remission is a strange situation. On the one hand you are delighted that the treatment has worked and that there are ‘no ac...
  • #15 To work or not to work

    For some of us who walk this path we don’t get an option about returning to work, the long-term side effects are just too much to allow any return to a normal life. However, at 48 once treatment had finished and with thankfully manageable side-...